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Theory Beyond Theorems and Proofs: A Guest Post
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Published: September 19, 2026 22:34
Scott’s foreword: I’m extremely grateful to my brilliant colleagues, Pravesh Kothari, Raghu Meka, and Prasad Raghavendra, for sharing the guest post below about how theoretical computer science (and in particlar, the STOC/FOCS/SODA conferences) should…
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
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Published: September 15, 2026 17:09
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, many of us would say things like: Look, the part of the…
9/11 in Berkeley
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Published: September 11, 2026 17:04
Note: Of course I’ve been glued all week to the dramatic developments in AI. I’m working on a post about them. I’m not good at reacting to things in a timely way. So today, I’ll do my post marking the tragedy a quarter-century ago that we all commemorate.…
LLMs and self-referentiality
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Published: September 1, 2026 17:17
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore,…
Anthropic’s LLM watermarking
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Published: August 22, 2026 21:31
So yeah, Anthropic has announced that it’s now watermarking the outputs of Claude, using a scheme based on Google’s SynthID, which is in turn based on the Gumbel Softmax scheme that I proposed at OpenAI back in 2022—as far as I know, the first LLM…
Better than gold
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Published: August 20, 2026 16:27
What’s about the only thing more badass than a 17-year-old winning a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI)? That 17-year-old intentionally forfeiting his gold medal by wearing an Israeli flag while the medal was announced,…
Michael Rabin memorial conference
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Published: August 16, 2026 20:45
Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she’s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing Award winner Michael…
Enough with all the world-historic milestones
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Published: August 7, 2026 22:41
Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. In particular: I’m aware that, as announced by my former student (and now superstar professor) Lijie Chen, an internal OpenAI model has solved ten more significant open…
NISQ and quantum supremacy did not fail
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Published: July 18, 2026 20:38
A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose. Here’s the abstract: With a single clear exception, every NISQ-era flagship demonstration of ‘quantum…
Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs)
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Published: July 11, 2026 20:25
Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first job is to serve on the selection committee for the prestigious Michael and Sheila Held Prize in combinatorial and discrete optimization and related areas. The committee chair, my former MIT…